Fungi and Plantae
The transfer of pollen grains from the anther to the carpel in flowering plants. This can happen via an insect or other animal carrying pollen from one plant to another.
What is pollination?
Segments of bone or some other hard substance arranged into a backbone.
What are vertebrae?
Organisms that eat both plants and other organisms.
What are omnivores?
What is the control center (or brain) of the cell?
The Nucleus
The founder of modern genetics.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
This is the number of bones in a shark's body.
What is zero?
The name of the drug which comes from a useful imperfect fungi, that can kill harmful bacteria associated with many human sicknesses.
What is penicillin?
Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart. A=?
What are arteries?
The process by which green plants and some other organisms use the energy of sunlight and simple chemicals to produce their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
This is taken from the air by respiration and is restored by photosynthesis. hint: we need this in order to survive!
What is oxygen?
Crayfish: These parts aid in swimming as well as reproduction. They are larger for the males and smaller for the females. Females carry eggs and offspring on them. (they look like tiny legs)
What are swimmerets?
This is the human body's largest organ.
What is the skin?
A plant that loses its leaves for the winter.
What is a deciduous plant?
When a bird is doing this, it is oiling its feathers.
What is preening?
The system of classifying organisms. (KPCOFGS) King Phillip Cried Out For Goodness Sake!
What is taxonomy?
The mighty organelles in a cell in which nutrients are converted to energy. AKA the powerhouses of the cell
What are mitochondria?
Perch: This organ helps the fish stay afloat in the water. It is sort of like a life preserver!
What is an air bladder?
The Statue of Liberty was a gift to the U.S. from this country.
What is France?
This type of plant comes back year after year.
What is a perennial?
The back of an animal is __________ side. The belly of an animal is called the ___________ side.
What is the dorsal and the ventral?
A theory that has been tested by and is consistent with generations of data. i.e. the apple will fall from the tree and hit the ground- or will it float? Hmmmmm? test, test, test- theorize and then finally it becomes what?
What is a scientific law?
The jelly-like fluid inside a cell in which organelles are suspended.
What is cytoplasm?
The two-letter set that represents the alleles an organism possesses for a certain trait. Bb, AA, BB, etc.
What is genotype?
The abbreviation DNA stands for this.
What is Deoxyribonucleic Acid?
The part of the fungus responsible for extracellular digestion and absorption of the digested food. (hint:grows underground, but it's not a root)
What is the mycelium?
This body part senses vibrations in the water and alerts fish and sharks to movements in the water.
What is the lateral line?
Name two of the four criteria for life.
1. All life forms contain DNA.
2. All life forms have a method by which they extract energy from their surroundings and convert it to energy which sustains them.
3. All life forms can sense changes in their surroundings and respond to those changes.
4. All life forms reproduce.
The process by which certain gases (primarily water vapor, carbon dioxide, and methane) trap heat that would otherwise escape the earth and radiate into space.
What is the greenhouse effect?
The vibrating membrane attached to the ventral nerve cord, located on the 1st segment of the abdomen (seen on the grasshopper)
What is the tympanic membrane?
A council in this place gave us the creed that we recite at Mass on Sunday.
What is Nicea?
In plants, a growth response to light- plants will grow towards light!
What is phototropism?
The type of hair we normally see or pet on a mammal, because that's what's on top.
What is guard hair?
observations involving numbers such as counting and measuring (hint: If I take your temperature, I get a number)
Quantitative measurement
An organism that eats primary consumers. These are usually carnivores. (Primary consumers eat producers)
What is a secondary consumer?
This animal has tough, dry scales. It is ectothermic, has lungs, a 3-chambered heart (with a divided ventricle), and lays leathery, amniotic eggs
What is a reptile?
The first pope.
Who is Peter?